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The Confusions of Young Törless

Robert Musil

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1906
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 160

At a strict Austrian boarding school, a thoughtful teenager watches, then joins, his classmates in tormenting and sexually humiliating a boy caught stealing, and comes away shaken by what he has learned about cruelty in himself.

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The Confusions of Young Törless, Robert Musil

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